Prof
Timothy Hodgson

Professor of Psychology

About Timothy Hodgson

Undergraduate degree in Psychology and Physiology Cardiff University 1986-1989.
Perceptual Psychologist, Research Department, Rediffusion Flight Simulation (now Thales Simulation and Training Ltd), Gatwick UK 1990-1992.
PhD at Birkbeck college, University of London 1992-1996 Researching the cognitive and neural systems involved in the control of human eye movements and visual attention.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Charing Cross Hospital / Imperial College School of Medicine. 1996-2002
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Exeter. 2002-2011
I was appointed as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Research Director at Lincoln in September 2011 to join a growing team of researchers in the Cognition Perception and Action group.

Department Responsibilities

Research DIrector 2011-2013
Head of School of Psychology 2013-2017
School Research Impact Champion 2018 - date

Research Interests

Research Groups Memberships

Research Projects

PEARL - Embedding Public Engagement for All in Research at Lincoln
— awarded £47000 by Research and Innovation UK follow on funding in 2018

Exploring experiences of the illness, its care and achieving function following Guillain-Barre syndrome
— awarded £35745 by GAIN (Guillane-Barre syndrome) charity in 2018

PEARL - Embedding Public Engagement for All in Research in Lincoln
— awarded £60441 by EPSRC in 2017

Eyelander Online: Gamified training for children and young people with vision impairment
— awarded £39500 by Comic Relief: Tech for Good in 2017

Gaze coordination in social interactions: The effects of Parkinsons disease
— awarded £9923 by British Academy / Leverhulme in 2016

To increase expertise in childhood cerebral visual impairment through development of a computerised game for rehabilitating visual field loss
— awarded £137000 by Technology Strategy Board / MRC in 2013

fMRI study of social moral decision making
— awarded £5000 by Open University in 2010

Control and monitoring functions of the human rostral prefrontal cortex
— awarded £9800 by Wellcome Trust in 2008

The Neuroscience of Social Conventions and Norms
— awarded £98000 by ESRC/MRC in 2007

Modelling eye movements made in the course of reading syntactically ambiguous sentences
— awarded £76000 by ESRC in 2006

The representation of emotional and personal significance in person-specific knowledge
— awarded £79000 by ESRC in 2006